{"id":2253,"date":"2006-03-29T22:57:25","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T22:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2006-03-29T22:57:25","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T22:57:25","slug":"googles_2billio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s $2Billion Stock Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetoutsider.com\/2006\/03\/google_needs_an.html\">Blodgett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It must want to buy something.  No other conceivable explanation jumps to mind for why a cash-gushing monster with an $8 billion war chest would toss away another 5 million shares in tonight&#8217;s shelf filing.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled 2006 big ticket items are $1 billion to AOL for the search deal, $1 billion (rumored) to Dell for the Google Pack deal, and $1-$2 billion for capex, all offset by an estimated $2-$3 billion of positive cash flow.  Add that together and you get a net 2006 cash outflow of maybe $1 billion, leaving $7 billion on the balance sheet&#8211;more than enough to compete with anyone except&#8230;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blodgett: It must want to buy something. No other conceivable explanation jumps to mind for why a cash-gushing monster with an $8 billion war chest would toss away another 5 million shares in tonight&#8217;s shelf filing. Scheduled 2006 big ticket items are $1 billion to AOL for the search deal, $1 billion (rumored) to Dell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}